Crystal Clear - Lp, Any Info?

[boba]

Can anyone tell me what LP this is that is playing in this youtube video that has the Crystal Clear track? Did someone unearth a whole unreleased album and release it or is it just a comp:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOetwNzhyNg

 

Does anyone have any info on the group? Aside from being produced by Philly people, I can't find any info. This page claims they have 4 singles and aren't a female group:

 

https://souldennis.blogspot.com/2010/02/crystal-clear-oomph-in-my-life-1980.html

 

however, the group on "A Major label" *clearly* isn't the same group, there's one guy singing, no common names, it's clearly not a philly record (looks like a nola pressed record, etc):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kouYRGaV8hM

 

I don't know anything about the Pretty Pearl record but it's a new york label and came out on a 12", here is a pic:

 

https://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2035519

 

Did this come out on a 7" as claimed on the "rarephillysax" page? I don't see any common names across the three groups and am guessing that they are unrelated. Does anyone have any info on the Polydor group? This facebook page say "A buddy turner project":

 

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=110168665711752&story_fbid=299233780145200

 

One of the singles was produced by Doug King and Buddy Turner and another was produced by Doug King and Morris Bailey. I'm guessing this is him:

 

https://articles.philly.com/1995-10-17/news/25694115_1_classical-music-klaus-heymann-naxos

 

I have the second polydor 45 and it has mike curb's production logo on it, maybe he was some sort of executive producer. I can't find out anything about the group though.

 

 

 

[boba]

A little more info: producer Doug King seemed to like producing female groups around that, he produced Direct Current and Vaneese and Carolyn and Marlene Delaney on Polydor. I doubt that any of these acts were related to Crystal Clear as there is the name "Pearl Scott" as one of the writers on the Crystal Clear 45. He did do some of his recording in the NY/NJ area. So I still would like to know

 

a) what is that album playing in the first youtube clip? it's not a whole crystal clear LP that was unearthed was it?

 

and

 

b) does anyone have link to audo (youtube or whereever) of the Crystal Clear on Pretty Pearl? And did it come out on a 7"

 

thanks again,

Bob

[Simon T]

A little more info: producer Doug King seemed to like producing female groups around that, he produced Direct Current and Vaneese and Carolyn and Marlene Delaney on Polydor. I doubt that any of these acts were related to Crystal Clear as there is the name "Pearl Scott" as one of the writers on the Crystal Clear 45. He did do some of his recording in the NY/NJ area. So I still would like to know

 

a) what is that album playing in the first youtube clip? it's not a whole crystal clear LP that was unearthed was it?

 

Expansion Soul Sauce Volume Two

 

 

 

 

[boba]

thanks so much!

 

Does anyone have any info on the Pretty Pearl record? Did it come out on a 7" and is it a female group? Any audio online? Thanks again!

[Simon T]

thanks so much!

 

Does anyone have any info on the Pretty Pearl record? Did it come out on a 7" and is it a female group? Any audio online? Thanks again!

[Simon T]

thanks so much!

 

Does anyone have any info on the Pretty Pearl record? Did it come out on a 7" and is it a female group? Any audio online? Thanks again!

[boba]

Thanks, I already have all the pics on the polydor 45s. I have never heard the pretty pearl 45 before, it sounds like a different group, at least it has a male lead and backing vocal with one woman singing. Do you know if the pretty pearl record came out on a 7"? thanks.

[boba]

Can anyone tell me if Crystal Clear "Just a little smile" is an identical recording to the Vaneese and Carolyn single on Polydor? Thanks again for everyone's help.

[boba]

does nobody have the stock copy of the first crystal clear single to compare to the vaneese and carolyn version of "just a little smile"? this really would help me out a lot to know whether they are the same recording or not.

 

also thanks again simon for your help.

[boba]

ok final post on this, I see there was not a release of crystal clear with "just a little smile", it was a comment someone posted saying that was the flip of their copy. that is the only reference on the entire internet to this, so it has to be a mistake. thanks everyone for the space and thanks again simon.